See dangle on Wiktionary
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"text": "He'd rather on a gibbet dangle / Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.",
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"(intransitive) To hang loosely with the ability to swing."
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"ref": "1833, Miller's Modern Acting Drama:",
"text": "To dangle at the elbow of a wench who can't make up her mind to accept the common title of wife, till she has been courted a certain number of weeks — so the old blinker, her father, says.",
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"ref": "1976, R. Winifred Heyward Johnson, Douglass W. Johnson, Introduction to Nursing Care, page 139:",
"text": "Record the time and duration of dangling, patient's pulse and respirations and patient's general tolerance of the procedure. […] The next step usually in getting the patient out of bed is sitting […]",
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},
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"ref": "2012, Judith M. Wilkinson, Leslie S. Treas, Pocket Nursing Skills: What You Need to Know Now:",
"text": "[P]ivot to bring the patient's legs over the side of the bed. Be Smart! Stay with the patient as he dangles.",
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"sense": "hang loosely",
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"word": "вися"
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"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "hang loosely",
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"sense": "hang loosely",
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "pendre"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "pendouiller"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "pender"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "pendurar"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "colgar"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "baumeln"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "csüng"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "fityeg"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "lóbál"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "penzolare"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "tāewa"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "tautau"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "tāwēwē"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "hang loosely",
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{
"code": "mi",
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{
"code": "pt",
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"word": "pender"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"word": "pendurar"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
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"word": "bălăbăni"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "legăna"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "visétʹ",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "висе́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "boltatʹsja",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "болтаться"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kačátʹsja",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "кача́ться"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "hang loosely",
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"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "vrēlāḍu",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "వ్రేలాడు"
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"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "länk-"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "telipátysja",
"sense": "hang loosely",
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"word": "теліпа́тися"
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"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetan",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "pindoƚar"
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "treo"
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "hang loosely",
"word": "lủng lẳng"
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "dallā",
"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
"word": "دَلَّى"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zakačvam",
"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
"word": "закачвам"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "provesvam",
"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
"word": "провесвам"
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"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
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"code": "cs",
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
"word": "baumeln (mit)"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
"word": "schlenkern (mit)"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
"word": "baumeln lassen"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
"word": "far penzolare"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
"word": "whakatārewa"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
"word": "atârna"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "hang or trail something loosely",
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"code": "ru",
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"ref": "2017, Nancy Howell Lee, Peter Dale Scott, Bertram Gross, Forbidden Bookshelf's Resistance in America Collection:",
"text": "The example of Oswald will show how the different operations of a dangle and a barium meal would work more efficiently together.",
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"text": "So her father wrote to Mrs. Herring, and one day she arrived and turned out to be a little, lean old lady with a dark brown mole on one leathery cheek and wearing a black bonnet decorated with jet dangles, like tiny fishing rods.",
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